In outspending former Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich en route to the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney proved he knows how to reel in big-cash backers. But if he hopes to go toe-to-toe this fall with President Obama, the former Massachusetts governor needs to show he can fish for small-dollar donors, too.

Now that the race [is] a two-person contest, Mr. Romney ought to be able to bring more small donors in, said Michael J. Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), a Washington-based think tank. But to do so, some things will have to change. He will have to gain more passionate support or more committed support as opposed to respect. He will have to make a real effort to find these people and go after them. This campaign at several points has said that it was doing so, but we do not see much evidence of that.

Even if Mr. Romney goes after smaller fish, its not clear the GOP rank and file are eager to hop into the presumptive nominees net.

Not unless Im struck by a lightning bolt from on high, said Emma P. Routh from Franklinville, N.C., who fired off a $100 check to Mr. Santorum in March, weeks before the former senator from Pennsylvania dropped out of the race. She said it might take divine intervention to get her to send a similar check to Mr. Romney.

>>You are choosing to believe the campaign promises of Hope and Change from a proven and documented Liar, Mitt Romney. <<

No, I am stating for fact that Romney likes America enough to keep it from being turned over to the Communists and Jihadis, while BO is waiting for his “next election” to do exactly that. AND put his specially picked Justices in for life.

Romney had a liberal congress in a liberal state to screw up. You have no record of Romney with a conservative congress and a conservative state. Only BO thinks that we elect a dictator.

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posted on 05/07/2012 10:52:14 AM PDT
by netmilsmom
(Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)

Romney had a liberal congress in a liberal state to screw up. You have no record of Romney with a conservative congress and a conservative state. Only BO thinks that we elect a dictator.

Once again, I'm not interested in Hope and Change, which is what this amounts to.

There is nothing in his record that reflects what you are hoping for.

His is a record of lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberalism papered over with his own documented and continual lying about his record and trying to pretend he is either a conservative, or at least a moderate.

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posted on 05/07/2012 2:50:43 PM PDT
by SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)

Romney moving into the White House would be the equivalent of slumming for him. Not to push the class envy card but he is dripping in money and I do wonder if the time has come when only millionaires will be able to run for president.
The money spent on his campaign to date is mind boggling. How in touch will he be with the Plumber Joe’s of America?

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posted on 05/07/2012 3:38:17 PM PDT
by katiedidit1
("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)

Common sense. If President Obama had any such plans he would have accomplished same in his first term, never leaving a second term to chance. And Romney likes America? Romney likes Romney. I have previously said I would gnaw my arm off before voting for Mitt Romney.

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posted on 05/07/2012 4:16:20 PM PDT
by DallasSun
(Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)

I agree. And once again, trying to convince others to vote for Romney by expressing the fear that if Obama is re elected the world as we know it will end and dogs and cats will be sleeping together is not persuasive.

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posted on 05/07/2012 4:18:54 PM PDT
by DallasSun
(Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)

I cannot believe that West would run with Romney. I think it would cost him his credibility. And from what I know of West, he is too smart to do that. I have a hard time believing he would accept the VP position with Romney.

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posted on 05/07/2012 4:21:12 PM PDT
by DallasSun
(Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)

IF dems control congress they may Bork Romney’s nominees. Which I would hope are nothing like the liberal judges Gov Romney appointed in Mass.
We need a strong grassroots movement in the statewide elections where conservatives work their asses off for the nominees. We also need to hold the republicans accountable for their votes and non votes. So far they have been wimps on more occasions than I care to remember.

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posted on 05/07/2012 4:56:01 PM PDT
by katiedidit1
("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)

“Geniuses” like Dick Morris claimed during the primary that we’d lose the election if we didn’t have a candidate until the convention because they wouldn’t be able to start their general election campaign until 2 months before the election. Well, now we have a candidate, but he still can’t start his general election campaign, because he’s still fighting for the support of the base. My advice to Romney is to give up fighting for the base. It’s not going to happen. The base are very smart, very well-informed, very dedicated to their cause and they can sniff out who is or is not one of them, and you’re not. His only shot would be to go full-bore for the moderates/independents and soft liberals no matter how much it risks ticking the base off and no matter how much of a financial disadvantage it causes him. And he needs to bus Utah Mormons all over the country and set up LDS encampments because he won’t be getting a lot of the usual volunteers from the base.

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posted on 05/07/2012 4:57:01 PM PDT
by JediJones
(From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)

>>You are truly are supporting an evil choice, a lessor of two evil choice for sure, but a choice, that I believe, that long term will be much more disasterous for the GOP than Obama would ever be. <<

I don’t give a rat’s behind about the GOP. I’m a registered Independent and have been since I voted for Reagan.

However, I love my country. I love her so much that I will sacrifice some comfort to save her. I don’t like Romney, he is a lying snake, but Obama is a Muslim loving, Israeli hating, Marxist who is willing to gift Poland, Slovakia and all of Eastern Europe to the Russians.

The Muslim Brotherhood is in the TSA under Obama.

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posted on 05/07/2012 5:22:27 PM PDT
by netmilsmom
(Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)

I think the problem with a lot of conservatives, oddly enough, is triumphalism. A lot of us believe that we are the majority, which is false. When the media polls for conservatives and gets a majority %, they are including blacks and Hispanics, who are social conservatives, but economic liberals, and always vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Bottom line is every Democratic administration is an opportunity for the Democrats to assemble a new entitlement that permanently buys them the block of recipients eligible for it. While we're out RINO-hunting, the Democrats are permanently reducing the number of conservatives with new costly and irreversible entitlement programs.

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posted on 05/07/2012 5:35:37 PM PDT
by Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)

Don’t expect anyone who God is #1 with them to associate themselves with that cult leader with his evil ways. Cults think they found a better way - there is only One Way, JESUS! I hate EVIL with a passion. Either one hates evil or embraces it, there is no in between.

Not unless Im struck by a lightning bolt from on high, said Emma P. Routh from Franklinville, N.C., who fired off a $100 check to Mr. Santorum in March, weeks before the former senator from Pennsylvania dropped out of the race.

Leave it up to the media to tweak out a paragon of mature judgment like good ol' Emma here. Not exactly a 'wise Latina" but close enough for media work. I'm sure she'll "fire off" a check to Ron Paul next.

To: MEG33 I would bet that if hed waited to announce until AFTER Sarah Palin announced that shed declined to run, half of the most vociferous critics of Perry would be supporting him The other half are wolfs in sheeps clothing shilling for Romney or theyre Ron Paul true believers.

I HATE these smug sanctimonious so-called Christian bigots who spew this kind of vomit! There are about 150 good, solid and responsible reasons not to vote for Romney and even more reason not to vote for huntsman. To go the bigoted route is despicable. Im ashamed that these people call themselves conservative!

24 posted on Friday, July 08, 2011 4:48:07 PM by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)

I'm not certain that I get the point you're trying to make but I'm proud that you're so interested in what I post.

I still stand by those posts. I still hate the idea that Romney will be my party's candidate and that if I want obama out of the WH...and I wholeheartedly do!...then I see no realistic alternative to voting for Romney.

I'm a three time loser in my choice of candidates. I was very pro-Cain until he came up with that ridiculous 9-9-9 slogan disguised as a tax plan. Then I supported Perry...to no good end and finally Santorum. Maybe I should just throw my jinxy mojo behind obama and see what happens.

The underscored point you made put it best: There are 150 reasons not to support Romney. You wish he’d just shut up, that Romney-bots are disgusting, and elsewhere that Romney is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Remembering you from the Perry, Cain, and Santorum threads, I’d like you to simply check out the conservative credentials of Goode.

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posted on 05/08/2012 6:38:04 AM PDT
by xzins
(Vote Goode not Evil (the lesser of 2 evils is still evil))

So a known, documented, serial liar tells you he has changed, and even while he is telling you he has changed, he is still lying about his past record. A record, BTW, that proves that he is a Progressive Liberal. A record with nothing in it to recommend Romney to conservatives.

I don't believe in Hope and Change, apparently you do.

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posted on 05/08/2012 7:41:57 AM PDT
by SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)

The only problem with your analysis is that the GOP has done quite a bit of its own new costly and irreversible entitlement programs.

And it will continue to do so. Nixon came up with the new Hispanic protected minority category that entrenched racial preferences for millions of people. Reagan came up with the amnesty program that legalized millions of Democrats, and is responsible for turning California deep blue (and Texas a little further down the road) and other states near Mexico a distinct purple*. Bush I raised taxes so Clinton could take credit for reducing them. Bush II came up with No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D. And yet any of these Republicans would have been superior to any of the Democratic alternatives.

* I'd argue Reagan was probably the worst of them all, in terms of destroying GOP majorities - his importation of tens of millions of illegals created irreversible (and adverse to the GOP) demographic facts on the ground. We are very fortunate that the GOP grassroots were able to prevent Bush II from enacting his immigration reform, but I think it's undeniable that either Gore or Kerry would have been worse than Bush II.

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posted on 05/08/2012 4:11:39 PM PDT
by Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)

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